QLab August 2008 Archive

Facebook group

From: Geep (G. P. Howell)
Subject: Facebook group

Is there a Spanish translation of the Qlab help file? I think that is
what he is asking for. My Spanish is not as good as it used to be so
doing a long technical translations is something I would tackle, but
perhaps someone in the group has a better command of the language and
can answer his questions?

Mariano, espero que hay un miembro del grupo que conoce la lengua mas
bien que yo, pero si no, trato de ayudarle

geep

G. P. Howell WA4RTS
Partner, HH Audio
ARRL Life Member

On Aug 18, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Mariano Garcia wrote:

> HI from Madrid Spain, Europe,
>
> Do Anybody Knows, if is possible an explanation of the QLab in
> translated in Spanish?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> My name´s MARIANO J. GARCIA I´m sound designer for theaters company.
>
> i´m 35
>
> 2008/8/19 Rick Malone <rickmalone at sbcglobal.net>
> Whoops, I miscalculated. My oldest daughter is an 8-08er, but I'm a
> 9er. 9 days older.
>
> Rick Malone
>
> Andy Leviss <Andy at DucksEchoSound.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Rick Malone wrote:
> > So I guess that at 68...for the past 10 days, I'm geezer vintage?
>
> Another 8/8er, huh? I know they taught us in HS math that shared
> birthdays were actually fairly statistically common in even relatively
> small groups, but it's still always suprising!
>
> --Andy, the recently 27-year-old whippersnapper
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bundle question

From: Shawn Parr
Subject: bundle question

Are you making sure to set you path before you start adding cues?
Then after bundling you may have to set the path to the new location
if you copy the bundle folder.

I have ran into an instance where my paths were all messed up, and it
was due to leaving the workspace path (on the top of the window) to
the default location so that all the cues added ended up with absolute
paths. Times when I've been good about setting the path first I
remember going much more smoothly when bundling.

On Aug 19, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Michael Klaers wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I've had problems lately transferring bundled files between
> computers. All the cues lose their paths.
>
> Is there a setting for relative vs absolute paths or something like
> that that I'm missing?
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
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bundle question

From: Michael Klaers
Subject: bundle question

Hi all

I've had problems lately transferring bundled files between
computers. All the cues lose their paths.

Is there a setting for relative vs absolute paths or something like
that that I'm missing?

Thanks

Michael

video qlab

From: John Wright
Subject: video qlab

Do you have the pro video version. If you do not you will have to
reload all of your video with new cues each time you open the
project. If you do not wish to go though all of that then you need to
buy the pro video license.
On Aug 19, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Sebastian Lissau Lund wrote:

> You have to buy the Video License to be able to save video cues in
> the free version
>
> Or you have to create new cues everytime you start the program.
>
> Sebastian
>
>
> On 19/08/2008, at 17.07, t.vahanen at kolumbus.fi wrote:
>
>> I have qlab for video use and my proplem is that i make a projekt
>> and save it.The next time i open it all cues have red X and they
>> don't play.i am useing the free version not the pro version.
>>
>> Pleas help Jim morrison musical is depending on it.!!!
>>
>>
>>
>>
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two songs playing at once

From: Paul Gotch
Subject: two songs playing at once

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:01:49PM -0300, Layna Emiliano wrote:
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video qlab

From: Sebastian Lissau Lund
Subject: video qlab

You have to buy the Video License to be able to save video cues in the
free version

Or you have to create new cues everytime you start the program.

Sebastian

On 19/08/2008, at 17.07, t.vahanen at kolumbus.fi wrote:

> I have qlab for video use and my proplem is that i make a projekt
> and save it.The next time i open it all cues have red X and they
> don't play.i am useing the free version not the pro version.
>
> Pleas help Jim morrison musical is depending on it.!!!
>
>
>
>
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video qlab

From: t.vahanen at kolumbus.fi
Subject: video qlab

I have qlab for video use and my proplem is that i make a projekt and save it.The next time i open it all cues have red X and they don't play.i am useing the free version not the pro version.

Pleas help Jim morrison musical is depending on it.!!!

two songs playing at once

From: Layna Emiliano
Subject: two songs playing at once

I don´t want to receive more mails from Qlab.
:) Thank you

Emiliano

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:08:34 -0700 (PDT), Joanne Burgess wrote
> In performance last evening two songs accidentally were started at
> the same time, (They are both just sound cues, one to follow the
> other, but the computer got jogged - or something)
>
> I did not know how to stop one without stopping the other, and I
> didn't want to leave the dancers on the floor without music. So
> they had to dance to the songs overtop of each other. It was not beautiful.
>
> Is there a way to stop a song playing over another without stopping
> the entire thing?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
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Facebook group

From: Mariano Garcia
Subject: Facebook group

HI from Madrid Spain, Europe,

Do Anybody Knows, if is possible an explanation of the QLab in translated in
Spanish?

Thanks a lot

My name´s MARIANO J. GARCIA I´m sound designer for theaters company.

i´m 35

2008/8/19 Rick Malone <rickmalone at sbcglobal.net>

> Whoops, I miscalculated. My oldest daughter is an 8-08er, but I'm a 9er.
> 9 days older.
>
> Rick Malone
>
> *Andy Leviss <Andy at DucksEchoSound.com>* wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Rick Malone wrote:
> > So I guess that at 68...for the past 10 days, I'm geezer vintage?
>
> Another 8/8er, huh? I know they taught us in HS math that shared
> birthdays were actually fairly statistically common in even relatively
> small groups, but it's still always suprising!
>
> --Andy, the recently 27-year-old whippersnapper
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Facebook group

From: Rick Malone
Subject: Facebook group

Whoops, I miscalculated. My oldest daughter is an 8-08er, but I'm a 9er. 9 days older.

Rick Malone

Andy Leviss <Andy at DucksEchoSound.com> wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Rick Malone wrote:
> So I guess that at 68...for the past 10 days, I'm geezer vintage?

Another 8/8er, huh? I know they taught us in HS math that shared
birthdays were actually fairly statistically common in even relatively
small groups, but it's still always suprising!

--Andy, the recently 27-year-old whippersnapper
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Facebook group

From: Andy Leviss
Subject: Facebook group

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Rick Malone <rickmalone at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> So I guess that at 68...for the past 10 days, I'm geezer vintage? <grin>

Another 8/8er, huh? I know they taught us in HS math that shared
birthdays were actually fairly statistically common in even relatively
small groups, but it's still always suprising!

--Andy, the recently 27-year-old whippersnapper

Facebook group

From: Rick Malone
Subject: Facebook group

So I guess that at 68...for the past 10 days, I'm geezer vintage? <grin>

Rick Malone

"Geep (G. P. Howell)" <wa4rts at ntelos.net> wrote: Actually, the test is to see how many are NOT over 40... (Charlie and
I are the same vintage, btw...)

geep

On Aug 18, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Charlie Richmond wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, E. Riley Casey wrote:
>
>> This is a test to see who on these lists is over 40 isn't it? LOL
>
> But I'm a very young 58.....
>
> C-)
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Facebook group

From: Geep (G. P. Howell)
Subject: Facebook group

Actually, the test is to see how many are NOT over 40... (Charlie and
I are the same vintage, btw...)

geep

On Aug 18, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Charlie Richmond wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, E. Riley Casey wrote:
>
>> This is a test to see who on these lists is over 40 isn't it? LOL
>
> But I'm a very young 58.....
>
> C-)
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Facebook group

From: Charlie Richmond
Subject: Facebook group

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, E. Riley Casey wrote:

> This is a test to see who on these lists is over 40 isn't it? LOL

But I'm a very young 58.....

C-)

Facebook group

From: E. Riley Casey
Subject: Facebook group

This is a test to see who on these lists is over 40 isn't it? LOL

>
>Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:54:04 +0000 (UTC)
>From: Charlie Richmond <charlier at RichmondSoundDesign.com>
>Subject: Re: [QLab] Facebook group created
>To: List - QLab <qlab at lists.figure53.com>
>
>
>On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Charlie Richmond wrote:
>
> > I've made a QLab Mailing List Facebook group and you are invited to join:
> >
> > http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28243177372

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301-608-0789 fx
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Facebook group created

From: Charlie Richmond
Subject: Facebook group created

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Charlie Richmond wrote:

> I've made a QLab Mailing List Facebook group and you are invited to join:
>
> http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28243177372

Here is a summary of the new Facebook groups that have been created related to
the subject area of this list:

Stagecraft Mailing List:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31280504103

Virtual Sound System:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32768927039

USITT Members & Fans:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27500281469

MIDI Users:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23728258363

Theatre Sound:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24183671126

Surround Sound:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27270551749

Sound Design:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37987971800

Show Control:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24691188130

SFX Users:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=71455330081

QLab Mailing List:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28243177372

3D Audio:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22757542319

Cheers!

| - Charlie Richmond - Richmond Sound Design - Skype: charlierichmond - |
| - http://www.RichmondSoundDesign.com "Performance for the Long Run" - |
| -- Virtual Sound System: "Where top quality meets the bottom line" -- |
| ----- I'm Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlierichmond ----- |
| -- Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=831810511 --- |

Facebook group created

From: Leon Rothenberg
Subject: Facebook group created

now we can put faces to names! miracles of modern technology. thanks CR.

-Leon

Disclaimer: I don't really look like a giant chef in front of a
restaurant in South Dakota.

On Aug 17, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Charlie Richmond wrote:

> I've made a QLab Mailing List Facebook group and you are invited to
> join:
>
> http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28243177372
>
> | - Charlie Richmond - Richmond Sound Design - Skype:
> charlierichmond - |
> | -- Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=831810511
> --- |
>
> And a reminder that the QLab Mailing List LinkedIn group exists also
> - just go to my profile
>
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlierichmond
>
> then scroll down to the QLab Mailing List Group logo then click on
> it to
> join.
>
> Enjoy!
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Facebook group created

From: Charlie Richmond
Subject: Facebook group created

I've made a QLab Mailing List Facebook group and you are invited to join:

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28243177372

| - Charlie Richmond - Richmond Sound Design - Skype: charlierichmond - |
| -- Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=831810511 --- |

And a reminder that the QLab Mailing List LinkedIn group exists also - just go
to my profile

http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlierichmond

then scroll down to the QLab Mailing List Group logo then click on it to
join.

Enjoy!

two songs playing at once

From: Jim Carroll
Subject: two songs playing at once

In addition to stopping the cue with the S command, you can fix the
computer to not allow double clicking. QLab preferences, 1st screen,
set the Minimum Time Required between each GO to something other than 0

Jim

On Aug 17, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Joanne Burgess wrote:

> In performance last evening two songs accidentally were started at
> the same time, (They are both just sound cues, one to follow the
> other, but the computer got jogged - or something)
>
> I did not know how to stop one without stopping the other, and I
> didn't want to leave the dancers on the floor without music. So
> they had to dance to the songs overtop of each other. It was not
> beautiful.
>
> Is there a way to stop a song playing over another without stopping
> the entire thing?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
>
>
>
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two songs playing at once

From: Emery Roth III
Subject: two songs playing at once

Highlight the cue you want to stop (either click it once or use the up/
down arrows to select it) and press the 'S' key.

--Emery

On Aug 17, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Joanne Burgess wrote:'

> In performance last evening two songs accidentally were started at
> the same time, (They are both just sound cues, one to follow the
> other, but the computer got jogged - or something)
>
> I did not know how to stop one without stopping the other, and I
> didn't want to leave the dancers on the floor without music. So
> they had to dance to the songs overtop of each other. It was not
> beautiful.
>
> Is there a way to stop a song playing over another without stopping
> the entire thing?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________
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two songs playing at once

From: Joanne Burgess
Subject: two songs playing at once

In performance last evening two songs accidentally were started at the same time, (They are both just sound cues, one to follow the other, but the computer got jogged - or something)

I did not know how to stop one without stopping the other, and I didn't want to leave the dancers on the floor without music. So they had to dance to the songs overtop of each other. It was not beautiful.

Is there a way to stop a song playing over another without stopping the entire thing?

Thanks,
Joe

Ooops

From: David Patridge
Subject: Ooops

You know how they say "ask and ye shall find"? After some perusal of
the archives I figured out the need to use the reset command to get
the GO NEXT function to behave when firing non-active cuelists. Sorry
to waste bandwidth.

David

David Patridge
311 West 50th Street
Apt. 6C
NY, NY 10019
+1.917.464.5551 ph.
+1.646.812.8735 cell
audioatelier at mac.com

Cuelist triggers

From: David Patridge
Subject: Cuelist triggers

Hello all -

I have the impression from speaking to Chris that it is possible to
have a GO Button unique to a cuelist. In other words, If I have a GO
button at FOH (using MIDI Solutions boxes to spit out a specific NOTE
ON command), that I could have a second button at the MD which (again
using a NOTE ON) could be set to advance cues in another list other
than the list that the operator is using at FOH. Chris mentioned that
I should select the in question (let's call it "Clicks"), open the
Inspector and assign a Note value as the trigger. I am led to believe
that when this note is seen it will advance (GO NEXT) the cues in this
secondary cuelist leaving the pointer alone on the main list. When
another occurrence of the trigger note is seen, the next cue in this
secondary cuelist fires and so on. Can't get this to work. Any
suggestions as to how to approach this?

Thanks in advance for the help.

David

David Patridge
311 West 50th Street
Apt. 6C
NY, NY 10019
+1.917.464.5551 ph.
+1.646.812.8735 cell
audioatelier at mac.com

MOTU Interfaces - Do they work these days? (was Fire wire interface)

From: Leon Rothenberg
Subject: MOTU Interfaces - Do they work these days? (was Fire wire interface)

Thanks to all for the reports.

Leon

Live Video Input

From: Christopher Ashworth
Subject: Live Video Input

Hi Steve,

Try exporting the Quartz composer file as a quicktime movie, and then
bringing that file into QLab. Not certain that will work, but it may.
I haven't checked the live feed via Quartz Composer in a long time,
and have some recollection that they (Apple) may have made changes
that prevented it from working in QLab in recent versions.

-C

On Aug 11, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Steve Wald wrote:

> I have been trying the 'Quartz Composer method' for this, but cannot
> make it work: I hope someone out there might be able to help me.
>
> I am using a Canopus ADVC-110 for video input. I have made a .qtz
> file, as described in previous posts and am fairly confident that
> I've done it correctly because opening the .qtz file in Quicktime
> displays the live video feed, as expected. I have even made the
> almost legendary, rotating cube .qtz file with the live feed on each
> face and this works in Quicktime too.
>
> Playing either in Qlab doesn't work. (The cube rotates but there is
> no video on its faces.) I quit QT before starting QLab and have
> saved a test file with the inspector window closed, which seemed to
> solve some past problems for some people.

Live Video Input

From: Steve Wald
Subject: Live Video Input

I have been trying the 'Quartz Composer method' for this, but cannot
make it work: I hope someone out there might be able to help me.

I am using a Canopus ADVC-110 for video input. I have made a .qtz
file, as described in previous posts and am fairly confident that I've
done it correctly because opening the .qtz file in Quicktime displays
the live video feed, as expected. I have even made the almost
legendary, rotating cube .qtz file with the live feed on each face and
this works in Quicktime too.

Playing either in Qlab doesn't work. (The cube rotates but there is
no video on its faces.) I quit QT before starting QLab and have saved
a test file with the inspector window closed, which seemed to solve
some past problems for some people.

Does anyone have any thoughts, please?

Steve.

MOTU Interfaces - Do they work these days? (was Fire wire interface)

From: Andy Leviss
Subject: MOTU Interfaces - Do they work these days? (was Fire wire interface)

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Leon Rothenberg <leonr at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have a feeling on the next show that
> what will be available to me will be MOTU products, probably an 828. Someone
> mentioned the driver wonkiness is gone, besides the Ultralite discussed
> here, can anyone corroborate that the MOTU problems discussed about 6 months
> ago seem to have passed with new drivers, up-to-date Leopard, new firmware,
> etc?

My personal shows right now are designed on a 1st gen 828. I haven't
had issues yet, knock on wood.

That said, it'll be a cold day in Hell with the Devil giving out free
sleigh rides before I give them another penny willingly. While I
haven't run into Mac driver issues (which is what, clearly, applies
for QLab), I've run into lots on Windows, and their customer support
is useless when you can get ahold of them, which is rare. They have
only a couple trunk lines going to their support phone number, so most
days, you'll get either a busy signal or a line that rings ceaselessly
with no answer for hours at a time.

If you give up and try their website's e-mail form, they promise a
response within a day or two. Last time, first contact took around a
week. I'd hoped they'd improved from years ago (2003, when I bought
said 828) when their first two responses took 3.5 and 2.5 weeks each
(it may have been the other way around, but that's a bit moot), and
when they made out like they were doing me a HUGE favor for honoring
the 30 DAY warranty (yes, 30 DAYS) because I was now past 30 days.
They didn't take it too well when I pointed out that I had documented
proof that I had contacted them well within the 30 days, but THEY took
until after the 20 days to get back to me.

Then there's the feature on the MIDI Express XT that, at least until a
couple months ago, they were actively advertising, but that hasn't
been available since OS 9/Win 98. They told me the feature was taken
out of the current control software, and they were very sorry I'd
bought numerous of that model based on that one feature, but that I
could either buy a newer, more expensive model to regain the feature,
or find an older computer to program it on. And then, when I managed
to get 98 running, the 98 version of the software couldn't talk to my
XT. I finally got a co-worker's borrowed PowerBook to do what I
needed. Thanks, MOTU.

So, while their driver issues may be gone, at least on OS X (I can't
speak either way, other than that my experience has been alright), the
company is absolutely horrible with regards to customer support and
honest advertising. I mean come on, they TOOK A FEATURE AWAY FROM ME
YEARS AFTER I BOUGHT THE PRODUCT SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT FEATURE!!!!!!!!

If the piece is already purchased and you need to use it, you'll
probably be alright. If it's a new purchase, please, do anything you
can to keep these inconsiderate jerks from getting your money.

My two cents,
Andy

MOTU Interfaces - Do they work these days?

From: Matt Carpenter
Subject: MOTU Interfaces - Do they work these days?

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MOTU Interfaces - Do they work these days?

From: Alex Hawthorn
Subject: MOTU Interfaces - Do they work these days?

For Shakespeare in the Park's HAIR, we have dual Mac Minis firing
audio and MIDI, the main is on two 828's and the backup is on dual
Ultralite. The only issue we ever had was a MIDI output not working
on one of the Ultralites.

Alex

On Aug 10, 2008, at 2:05 PM, qlab-request at lists.figure53.com wrote:

> I do have an actual question. I prefer to use the RME Fireface as an
> interface (which can be ADAT connected to the RME ADI-8 PRO for more
> analog outputs but no delays, I think) but I have a feeling on the
> next show that what will be available to me will be MOTU products,
> probably an 828. Someone mentioned the driver wonkiness is gone,
> besides the Ultralite discussed here, can anyone corroborate that the
> MOTU problems discussed about 6 months ago seem to have passed with
> new drivers, up-to-date Leopard, new firmware, etc?
>
> Thanks. Plz forgive these outbursts.
>
> -Leon

Powered or Unpowered Monitors

From: David Thomas
Subject: Powered or Unpowered Monitors

Hi Billy:

You may use either powered or unpowered loudspeakers with Qlab. As is always
the case with unpowered loudspeakers, you would need amplifiers if you went
that route. I would also generally recommend running it all through a mixing
console as well. You can make a Qlab system work without a console, but
having one gives you improved routing flexibility and an extra level of
control, should anything go wrong (call me old-school).

DT

On 8/10/08 5:05 PM, "qlab-request at lists.figure53.com"
<qlab-request at lists.figure53.com> wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:27:46 -0700
> From: Billy Cowles <billycowles at aol.com>
> Subject: [QLab] Powered or Unpowered Monitors
> To: qlab at lists.figure53.com
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> Hi, My name is Billy. I am planning on using QLab and a Firewire Sound
> Card to run sound for an upcoming production at our local theater. I
> will most likely use 6 or 8 speakers to create a surround sound
> environment. Does anyone know of any firewire sound cards (like the
> ones on the list of "QLab Tested Hardware" that will work with
> unpowered speakers? It looks like they all require powered speakers.
> Thank you so much!
>
> Billy